2nd Lt John Snyder Houghton
Tokyo Kempei Tai
Koishikawa Military Cemetery
Yokohama Trials
T 310
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Complete files are at the
Phillips University of Marburg web site

 

Within this section are pages from Yokohama Trials 310 and 369. These are summaries with the title Review of the Staff Judge Advocate and are not the complete trial transcripts. There are 45 pages in the Trial 310 summary and 11 pages in the Trial 369 summary.

Some documents outside Lt Houghton's IDPF state that he was poisoned. These include the Mansell POW database, an 2006 article in Stars and Stripes, and pages from the Tobu Army District
POW Research Network Japan .
Within his IDPF there is only one statement in the Resume of Official Records that states

' died of burns '

The below pages are from Trial 310 and Lt Houghton appears frequently. In the second page his name is under Specification 2 and in the third and fourth pages he is in Specification 4.

In Page 2 of Trial 310 are Summary of Evidence for TOYAMA AND FUJINO. Presented here are two pages for each defendant and in each 2nd Lt John S Houghton's name appears.

A few details from Trial 369 are within its page.

 

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